motor ataxia

1. 1.

   inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait

   Synonymsataxiaataxydyssynergia

   Broadernervous disorder

   NarrowerFriedreich's ataxiahereditary cerebellar ataxia

   Part ofspinocerebellar disorder

Questions about motor ataxia

What does motor ataxia mean?

motor ataxia means "inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait".

What is another word for motor ataxia?

Close synonyms include ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motor ataxia a common word?

motor ataxia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.